Age-specific, year-specific mortality estimates for Malawi between the years 1987 and 2013 are shown below.
Data for these estimates is based on the following DHS surveys for Malawi:
NOTE: Some regional recoding was necessary to harmonize the different surveys. The final regions used in each survey are shown in the plot below:
The plots below show the mortality experienced by different age groups in the different regions of Malawi.
The results of the Poisson regression (using age group, time period and country region as predictors) are shown below:
| Deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Predictors | Incidence Rate Ratios | CI | p |
| (Intercept) | 0.02 | 0.02 – 0.02 | <0.001 |
| Age Group: 0 - 14 | Reference | ||
| Age Group: 15 - 49 | 0.27 | 0.27 – 0.28 | <0.001 |
| Period: 1980s | Reference | ||
| Period: 1990s | 1.09 | 1.05 – 1.12 | <0.001 |
| Period: 2000s | 1.10 | 1.06 – 1.13 | <0.001 |
| Period: 2010s | 0.77 | 0.73 – 0.81 | <0.001 |
| Region: Central | Reference | ||
| Region: Northern | 0.80 | 0.77 – 0.82 | <0.001 |
| Region: Southern | 1.17 | 1.15 – 1.20 | <0.001 |
| Observations | 24 | ||
| R2 Nagelkerke | 1.000 | ||
Data was sourced from the following DHS surveys for Malawi:
Below we present the age-specific, year-specific mortality estimates for each region of Malawi between the years 1987 and 2013.